Are you an Accountant working in a public or private sector organisation or Health Professional with responsibility for leading or managing?

Are you ready to grow and develop your skills and competency in order to achieve better results for your organisation and realise your professional potential?

If you answered yes to these questions, Goals and Achievements can help you to achive the results that you want.

Over the last 29 years Duncan Brodie, Managing Director has worked with hundreds of professional people who were great at the technical aspects of the job but struggled when it came to managing and leading. Those who recognised this and took action continued to thrive even though it was a struggle. Sadly many quickly hit a glass ceiling, got stuck and got de-motivated because they were struggling alone.

The Big Myth: How successful you are is all about how technically competent you are in your professional field

You obviously need to keep your professional skills up to date but what we have discovered is that what really determines how far you progress is not your technical skills but what are commonly referred to as softer skills. Things like:

Your ability to prioritise your own work so that you get the most important things done in the limited time that you have available.

Being able to stand back from the detail and keep focus on the bigger picture.

Your ability to identify and resolve problems effectively.

Your skills at setting a clear direction for the orgnisation, function, team or project that you are leading.

Anticipating the need for and successfully making change.

Presenting and communicating your messages effectively.

Getting teams to work effectively.

Effectively delegating and empowering others.

Keeping people motivated.

Dealing with difficult situations whether these are staff, customers, process or some other situation.

The good news is that with the right support it is possible to become as highly successful as a leader or manager as you are in your area of professional expertise.

At Goals and Achievements we specialise in helping highly rated accountants and health professionals to develop the skills and attribues to become highly successful managers and leaders and achieve career and personal success they deserve.

Since 2006, we have helped hundreds of accountants, doctors and other professionals individually and in groups to develop their management and leadership skills. Drawing heavily on his 25 years working in accountancy in major organisations where Duncan successfully progressed from Accounts Clerk to Financial Director, some of the challenges he has helped clients address, include:

Sorting out priorities and improving their personal productivity so that they achieve better results from the time at their disposal.

Getting across their messages more effectively both in formal presentations and in meetings.

Dealing with staff perfomance issues

Getting different parts of the organisation to work together rather than in silos.

Having the confidence to speak up and make their contribution outside of their own professional discipline.

Overcoming some of their personal limiting beliefs and myths that were getting in the way of delivering results.

Progressing their careers by more effectively presenting themselves, their skills, experience and personal attributes.

Can we help you? Take a few minutes to browse our site to find out more. You will find details of our services and programmes , what it is like to work with us, case studies from past clients, free resources and digital products. In the meantime, I invite you to enter your name and e-mail address in the box below to take advantage of our free audio e-course and our free monthly newsletter.

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